Saturday, January 14, 2006Science fiction or science fact?

Lately I've been seeing quite a few articles about advances in science that have frankly left me amazed. It seems as though whatever we can conceive of, people will eventually find a way to make reality.
The US has been researching beam weapons for the last 20 years, and it seems they are on the verge of creating weaponry, according to MSNBC.
Also in research, although theoretical, are hyperspace engines.

The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft.

I've always found the idea that we're trapped here like rats to be appalling, so the idea that we've figured a way out makes sense. Espically since there is ample evidence that other civilizations ahve some means of interstellar propulsion.